fallen
\ˈfa.lən\
The verdict
“fallen” is uncommon French (frequency #53,346 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,346
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tomber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fallen · fallen · French
fallen · rank #53,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,346
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH falcone
Nearest frequency peer: falcone (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « fallen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- falcone
falcone
46,656 corpus weight
- fallen
fallen
46,655 corpus weight
- fastueux
fastueux
46,654 corpus weight
- Firenze
Firenze
46,653 corpus weight
- flambé
flambé
46,652 corpus weight
- FLNC
FLNC
46,651 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fallen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fallen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈfa.lən\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fallen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fallen is uncommon French at frequency #53,346 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈfa.lən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.
fallen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fallen, spelled F-A-L-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1Tomber.
- 2Tomber : mourir au combat.
- 3Décroître, diminuer, tomber.
- 4Être, demeurer (du ressort de quelqu'un).
- 5Donner, être dirigé, parlant de la vue, de l’aspect.
- 6Tomber sous le coup de.
- 7Être prononcé, dans le contexte d’un verdict.
- 8Échouer (dans un examen).
- 9Être marqué, dans le contexte d’un but.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fallen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie fiel zu Boden.
Die Ukrainer könnten nicht verstehen, warum die Russen nicht auf die Straße gingen, als die ersten Raketen auf Kiew, Charkiw und Odessa fielen.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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